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Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million
cold fjord writes "The Washington Examiner reports, 'Oregon ... signed up just 44 people for insurance through November, despite spending more than $300 million on its state-based exchange. The state's exchange had the fewest sign-ups in the nation, according to a new report today by the Department of Health and Human Services. The weak number of sign-ups undercuts two major defenses of Obamacare from its supporters. One defense was that state-based exchanges were performing a lot better than the federal healthcare.gov website servicing 36 states. But Oregon's website problems have forced the state to rely on paper applications to sign up participants. Another defense of the Obama administration has attributed the troubled rollout of Obamacare to the obstruction of Republican governors who wanted to see the law fail as well as a lack of funding. But Oregon is a Democratic state that embraced Obamacare early and enthusiastically.'"
The whole Obamacare thing is about an overreaching government doing what the supermajority of people in the U.S. do not want them to do.
Oregon is just an indicator of how little politicians know how to RUN A BUSINESS.
Bill Elliot, a cancer patient was told his policy was going to be cancelled because it didn't meet your "minimum" standards. He could sign up for a new one at $1500 a month, unaffordable to an unemployed cancer patient, period. He went to a Washington paper to tell his story, once it went national his insurance company changed their mind and allowed him to keep his policy. They are BREAKING THE LAW to allow him to live, period. Once his story also got national news, suddenly the IRS began an audit of him, surprise surprise surprise.
How many other cancer patients, just like Mr. Elliot, have to condemned to death because their policy didn't meet your "minimum" and cover birth control? You don't give a damn because you want your "guy" in the White House to win and it doesn't matter how many you have to kill to make it so. You are a monster.
The best part is the administration is using the IRS as an attack dog to discourage others in similar conditions to come out and tell their story. The left cannot win when the truth comes out so it has become open season on anyone who dare says the truth.
You make me sick.
Does this really belong on /.? Seriously?
Have you been paying attention in the past 10 or so years? This site gets more conservative every year. Currently if you don't have a shrine to Ayn Rand in your house you will be labeled a communist here. Next year... who knows. So yes, this belongs here, because it supports the standard conservative narrative that dominates this site .
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